Railing-support.



Patented June 30, 1914.

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HARRY W. ALLARD, OF NEVJARK, NEW JERSEY.

RAILING-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented June 36, 1914i.

Original application filed November 10, 1911, Serial No. 659,513. Divided and this application filed June 13,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY N. ALLARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railing-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a support for planks and the like to form a temporary railing around an excavation; to secure a construction which can be knocked down and conveniently stored or transported, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following de scription and accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved lantern receiving support with a portion of a railing or guard adapted to be erected around an excavation or like point of danger; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a support adapted to be employed between lantern-receiving supports, as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the said intermediate support; Fig. 4 is a detail view of a hook member for holding said support in open position.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the specific embodiment of the invention illustrated in said drawings, a lanternreceiving support 1 providing a cage 2 is adapted to look within said cage a lantern held securely thereby against removal, although it is clearly visible through the sides of said cage as described in detail in my application Serial No. 659,513 filed November 10, 1911 and issued July 22, 1913 as Patent No. 1,068,033 and of which this is a division. In Fig. 1 one of these lantern-receiving supports 1 is shown as forming one of the corner posts for a railing such as is adapted to be erected around an excavation or similar source of danger. The larger portion of this railing would be formed of boards 3 arranged with their flat faces in a substantially vertical plane and having the ends thereof received within stir- Serial No. 773,414.

rups 4 at the upper ends of collapsible frames 5. Each of these supporting frames comprises a pair of similar frame members 6 which are pivoted together at their upper ends as indicated at 7 each of the frame members having an arched formation and being preferably formed by suitably bending a single piece of metal. The upper ends of the arched frame members are bent downwardly in substantially the plane of the re spective frame members to provide the stirrups 1 which are adapted to receive the ends of the boards 8. Each of the arched frame members is preferably reinforced by a cross bar 8 and the said frame members are adapted to be swung apart and locked in an open position by means of the hook members 9 the said hook members being hinged to one of the frame members and detachably engaging suitable eyes 10 upon the opposite frame member. When the frame members are swung apart, the lower ends of the stirrups 4 are also separated so that the stirrups can engage the abutting ends of a pair of boards, while when the hook members 9 are disengaged from the eyes 10 the two frame members 6 could be folded together so as to occupy a very small amount of space and be readily stored or transported from place to place.

It will be noted that the top of each frame 5 provides a horizontal support upon which a board or plank may be laid flatwise in a horizontal plane as illustrated in Fig. 1, while the depending stirrups receive beneath such a board or plank the end of an other board or plank 3 lying in edgewise position or arranged in a vertical plane. The frame thus is adapted to support boards or planks in either position, or in both, as may be desired in constructing a temporary railing or guard around a piece of work. The stirrups depend far enough below the top of the frame so that the boards in edgewise position lie beneath those in fiatwise position and neither obstructs the other.

Obviously the detail construction of the frames which I have described need not be exactly as positively illustrated but may be varied as mechanical skill suggests, and I do not wish to be understood as restricting myself except as required by the following claims when construed in the light of the prior art. While it is preferable to have the frames composed of hinged sections, each bent to form the horizontal top support and stirrup, it is obvious that these details might be changed Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, What I claim is 1. A support for a railing comprising a frame formed of a pair of members hinged together at their upper ends, and a stirrup depending from the line of hinging adapted to receive a railing member transverse to said line of hinging.

2. A support for a railing, comprising a frame formed of members hinged together at their upper ends and having the upper portions thereof deflected downwardly to provide stirrups, said members adapted to fold flativise together, and means for looking the frame members in an open position.

8. A support for a railing, including a frame formed With arched frame members hinged at their upper ends and having the upper portions thereof deflected downwardly to provide stirrups, and means for locking the frame members in an open position, the stirrups being then thrown slightly apart so as to receive the abutting ends of railing members.

4. A railing support comprising a frame formed of a pair of members hinged together at their upper ends and forming a horizontal top adapted to support a board or rail in flativise position, and a stirrup on said hinged members depending from the line of said hinging and adapted to receive the end of a board, or rail in edgewise position.

5. A railing support comprising a frame formed of a pair of members hinged at their upper ends and forming a horizontal top adapted to support a board or rail in flatwise position, and stirrups on said hinged members adapted to receive the ends of a board or rails in edgewise position.

HARRY W. ALLARD.

WVitnesses:

HOWARD P. KING, MILDRED E. BROOKS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner oi Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

